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Cramped: Inside one of the eerily deserted dormitory blocks, Mail Online found rooms with up to 12 bunk beds for which each worker would be charged the equivalent of £16 a month, deducted from their pay packets.

UK DAILY MAIL PHOTO

Cattle-class: The dormitories on the outskirts of Shanghai can house 6,000 but do not have private bathrooms, so up to 20 workers showered at a time

UK DAILY MAIL PHOTO

3 posted on 05/11/2016 11:10:23 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: dennisw
Keep in mind that these accommodations are a palace, compared to what the workers typically live in at home.

The article makes a big deal about the bathrooms, not realizing that's a big improvement over "normal" in China. Toilet fixtures are common in the western world, but not in the third world.

16 posted on 05/11/2016 11:26:22 AM PDT by justlurking
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This is the way I have always envisioned a properly functioning Congressional and Senate Dorm system working. Four to a room, bath down the hall, communal eating and six weeks a year in July and August to write a budget and GTHO and go home.

We make being a Government Apparatchik far too comfortable.

23 posted on 05/11/2016 11:31:32 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: dennisw

I don’t feel so bad about my old dorm at Michigan Tech now, for some reason...


40 posted on 05/11/2016 11:50:41 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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TURN THE LIGHTS OFF, ASSHOLE OR YOU'LL PAY FOR THE ELECTRICITY !!

41 posted on 05/11/2016 11:58:02 AM PDT by knarf (Jack Ruby ... pick up the red phone)
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bump


53 posted on 05/11/2016 12:25:53 PM PDT by apocalypto
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